1920
comrade about the borders of both the new gubernias and the Tatar, Bashkir
and other republics, regions and communes (German,
Chuvash) and others.
It is hardly possible to accomplish this without a commission under the SNK*.
With communist greetings,
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

5411

TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN**
August 11, 1920

Just received a dispatch from the chairman of the Soviet delegation in London. England got cold feet at the general strike, and Lloyd
George declared that he advises Poland to accept our armistice conditions,
which include both disarmament and the transfer of weapons to the workers, and land, and so forth. Our victory is great and will be
the most complete if we finish off Wrangel. We are taking all measures here. You press hard too, to seize the entire Crimea with this current blow at all costs. Everything now depends on this.
The Poles are dragging their feet and did not arrive on time. For us this is extremely advantageous.
Lenin

LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE

2385

LETTER TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
August 18, 1920

Comrade Sergo! Inessa Armand is departing today. I ask you
not to forget your promise. You must telegraph to
Kislovodsk, issue orders to arrange for her and her son properly and see to the execution of these orders. Without checking execution, they won't do a damn thing.

Please answer me by letter, and if possible, also by telegram: "letter received, will do everything, will establish proper verification."

I earnestly ask you, given the dangerous situation in the Kuban, to establish contact with Inessa Armand so that you can evacuate her and her son, if necessary, in time to Petrovsk and Astrakhan, or arrange (her son is ill) in the mountains near the Caspian shore, and in general take all measures.

Regarding Persia and so forth, write from time to time.
You inform me so rarely.
Greetings! Your Lenin

5450

TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE*
August 20, 1920

Today we passed through the Politburo your mandatory departure
to Rostov for immediate participation in liquidating the landings on
the Kuban and the Black Sea. Speed this up and press hard on it with all your strength, inform me more often. Replace yourself in Baku with someone else.

One more request: do not forget your promise to me to arrange treatment for Inessa Armand and her sick son, who departed on August 18, they should already be in Rostov by now.

Lenin

25199

TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasus Front

September 2, 1920

Received your telegram. There is no need for you to be indignant.
If Iksa's reports are false, write calmly ten lines

* On the telegram written by V. I. Lenin, there is his notation:
"cipher everything."